22 May 2017 09:00 to 09:15 Symposium Opening of the symposium Thomas Römer Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East 22 May 2017 09:00 to 09:15 Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Audio-visual RSS
Monday 22 May 2017 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:00 - 09:15 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Chairman: Thomas Römer Speaker(s) Thomas Römer Professor and Administrator of the Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 22 May 2017 09:00 to 09:15 Thomas Römer Opening of the symposium Symposium 22 May 2017 09:15 to 09:45 Nele Ziegler Samsî-Addu in the prime of life Symposium 22 May 2017 09:45 to 10:15 Lionel Marti The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs Symposium 22 May 2017 10:15 to 11:00 Jean-Daniel Macchi The old king who didn't want to be cold Symposium 22 May 2017 11:15 to 11:45 Anne Cheng Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China Symposium 22 May 2017 11:45 to 12:15 Boris Alexandrov The perception of old age in Hittite society Symposium 22 May 2017 12:15 to 13:00 Nicolas Grimal He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 10… Symposium 22 May 2017 14:15 to 14:45 Jean-Marie Durand Old people talk Symposium 22 May 2017 14:45 to 15:15 Michaël Guichard The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times Symposium 22 May 2017 15:15 to 16:00 Jack Sasson The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible) Symposium 22 May 2017 16:15 to 16:45 Saul Olyan Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible Symposium 22 May 2017 16:45 to 17:15 Regine Hunziker-Rodewald " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman Symposium 22 May 2017 17:15 to 17:45 Thomas Römer " Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) … Symposium 23 May 2017 09:00 to 09:30 Alain Prochiantz Life is death Symposium 23 May 2017 09:30 to 10:00 Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic G… Symposium 23 May 2017 10:00 to 10:30 Véronique Dasen Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro… Symposium 23 May 2017 11:00 to 11:30 Christian Grappe The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament Symposium 23 May 2017 11:30 to 12:00 Petra von Gemünden Approaches to old age in early Christianity Symposium 23 May 2017 12:00 to 12:45 David Hamidovic Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R… Symposium 23 May 2017 14:00 to 14:30 Dominique Charpin Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again Symposium 23 May 2017 14:30 to 15:00 Grégory Chambon " May he live for 3 600 years ! "… Symposium 23 May 2017 15:00 to 15:30 Sophie Ramond " I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).… Symposium 23 May 2017 16:00 to 16:30 Hervé Gonzalez Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography Symposium 23 May 2017 16:30 to 17:00 Matthieu Richelle How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ? Symposium 23 May 2017 17:00 to 17:30 Jacqueline Chabbi The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society Symposium 23 May 2017 17:30 to 18:30 Thomas Römer Closing of the symposium Next See also Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East
Symposium 22 May 2017 09:45 to 10:15 Lionel Marti The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs
Symposium 22 May 2017 11:15 to 11:45 Anne Cheng Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China
Symposium 22 May 2017 12:15 to 13:00 Nicolas Grimal He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 10…
Symposium 22 May 2017 15:15 to 16:00 Jack Sasson The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible)
Symposium 22 May 2017 16:15 to 16:45 Saul Olyan Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible
Symposium 22 May 2017 16:45 to 17:15 Regine Hunziker-Rodewald " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman
Symposium 22 May 2017 17:15 to 17:45 Thomas Römer " Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) …
Symposium 23 May 2017 09:30 to 10:00 Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic G…
Symposium 23 May 2017 10:00 to 10:30 Véronique Dasen Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro…
Symposium 23 May 2017 11:00 to 11:30 Christian Grappe The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament
Symposium 23 May 2017 12:00 to 12:45 David Hamidovic Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R…
Symposium 23 May 2017 14:00 to 14:30 Dominique Charpin Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again
Symposium 23 May 2017 15:00 to 15:30 Sophie Ramond " I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).…
Symposium 23 May 2017 16:00 to 16:30 Hervé Gonzalez Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography
Symposium 23 May 2017 16:30 to 17:00 Matthieu Richelle How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ?
Symposium 23 May 2017 17:00 to 17:30 Jacqueline Chabbi The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society
